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  • 2006
  • G
  • Buena Vista Pictures
  • 40 m
  • 2006
  • G
  • Buena Vista Pictures
  • 40 m
Roving Mars

Summary The mysterious Red Planet, Mars, has inspired countless science fiction dreams and nightmares. Now, for the first time, experience the reality of the Marc surface as seen through the eyes of two intrepid, death-defying explorers -- Spirit and Opportunity, the Mars Rovers -- in the spectacular new giant screen adventure Roving Mars. (Wal...

Directed By: George Butler

Written By: Robert Andrus, George Butler

  • 2006
  • G
  • Buena Vista Pictures
  • 40 m
  • 2006
  • G
  • Buena Vista Pictures
  • 40 m

Roving Mars

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary The mysterious Red Planet, Mars, has inspired countless science fiction dreams and nightmares. Now, for the first time, experience the reality of the Marc surface as seen through the eyes of two intrepid, death-defying explorers -- Spirit and Opportunity, the Mars Rovers -- in the spectacular new giant screen adventure Roving Mars. (Wal...

Directed By: George Butler

Written By: Robert Andrus, George Butler

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Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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58% Positive
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A splendidly photographed IMAX 2-D film, takes us breathlessly through the process of designing Spirit and Opportunity, the two plucky Mars rovers that have been sending images 300 million miles since they hit the Red Planet in 2003.
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70
Butler deftly intercuts real footage with CGI, heightening the drama, and the film becomes especially compelling once the robots are launched into space.
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If many of the scenes are fake, however, the thrill of the project is not, and what we do see of the surface - hyperclear photographs on the scale of 100-by-180 feet - is out of this world.
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67
The mission is an impressive coup for NASA - these scientists are smart! - but it doesn't quite slam-dunk as a fully satisfying IMAX experience.
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50
Not having a way to capture images of the machines at work means that too much of Butler's film -- his credits include "Pumping Iron" and the Imax film "Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure" -- is disappointingly made up of computer simulations.
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50
Roving Mars is bound to inspire hordes of young science geeks to dream about sending in their resumes. The rest of us may not feel so excited.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
40
Sometimes comes on like a NASA commercial; those logos loom gigantic on the IMAX screen. More troublingly, the film fails to explain how computer animations were combined with actual imagery from the missions.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Walt Disney Pictures, Lockheed Martin, NASA, K-M Productions, White Mountain Films, The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Release Date Jan 27, 2006
Duration 40 m
Rating G
Genres
Tagline A Whole New World Awaits.
Website http://movies.disney.com/roving-mars
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Awards

Visual Effects Society Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination

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